Starbound is an extraterrestrial sandbox adventure game! You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below and gather the resources you need to repair your ship and set off to explore the vast, infinite...

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Overwhelmingly Positive
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- 90% of the 60,415 user reviews for this game are positive.

A couple of weeks ago, we had a panel at EGX! Thanks to everyone who came and asked questions and talked to us afterwards – it was really lovely to meet you all! If you missed it, it’s up on the Youtubes now.

The next Starbound update is gearing up to be an exciting one, we think. In particular, we’re excited to finally have implemented a feature that’s been requested for a long time: terraforming!

In other words, the ability to transform a planet’s main biome into a biome of your choosing.

You’ll be able to accomplish this by obtaining a terraformer and setting it down on a planet’s surface. By fueling the terraformer, you’ll be able to expand the terraformed area outward, eventually changing the planet’s main biome!

Lots of other cool stuff in the works for Starbound 1.2, and I look forward to revealing more as we get closer to finishing it. ‘Til next time!

Reviews

“Each time I beamed down from my personal starship into the 2D sidescrolling craft-em-up that is Starbound, I found an experience that shoots for the stars and lands squarely among them.”
9.1/10 – IGN

“The game had a fairly rocky "early access" journey but after spending some time with the final build, but it looks like it has finally become the game we were promised all those years ago.”
4/5 – The Escapist

About This Game

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below and gather the resources you need to repair your ship and set off to explore the vast, infinite universe…

In Starbound, you create your own story - there’s no wrong way to play! You may choose to save the universe from the forces that destroyed your home, uncovering greater galactic mysteries in the process, or you may wish to forego a heroic journey entirely in favor of colonizing uncharted planets.

Settle down and farm the land, become an intergalactic landlord, hop from planet to planet collecting rare creatures, or delve into dangerous dungeons and lay claim to extraordinary treasures.

Discover ancient temples and modern metropolises, trees with eyes and mischievous penguins. Make use of hundreds of materials and over two thousand objects to build a sleepy secluded cabin in the woods, a medieval castle, or an underwater arcade.

Starbound has been built from the ground up to be multiplayer and easily moddable. You have the tools to make the universe your own and modify the game to suit your play style - add new races, biomes, dungeons, and quests - the possibilities are limitless.

Choose from one of 7 playable races and customize your character

Save the universe in a story campaign featuring unique characters, bosses, dungeons and quests!

You're the captain of your very own starship! Decorate it, expand it and use it to explore a procedurally generated universe

Colonize uncharted planets and collect gifts from your tenants - if they like you, they may even ask to join your ship crew!

Three game modes - Casual (no need to eat), Survival (eat to survive/drop items on death) and Hardcore (permadeath)

Craft thousands of objects - building materials, armor, weapons, furniture and more

Capture unique monsters to fight alongside you

All content is available in online drop-in/drop-out co-op

Built from the ground up to be easily moddable. You have the tools to make the universe your own - add new races, biomes, dungeons, and quests